How to Visit Kyoto from Tokyo, Where to Stay, How to Get around Kyoto

Kyoto is a popular tourist destination for international travelers to Japan, and many of you visiting Tokyo might make a trip to Kyoto too. Kyoto offers endless tourist attractions from its profound nature and tradition. However, I feel it's not the easy place to get around for travelers and hard to choose where to go in limited travel time.

So today, as one of the tourist that visited Kyoto numerous time, I made a visitor's guide so you can get the snap shot of the basics of Kyoto travel.

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[marsiling]

I love how you organize/outline your content. Detailed but not to the point that it doesn’t leave any room for personal discovery. It’s easy to follow and understand, and also very practical tips! Great job 👌🏼

[nathancasebeer]

I'm visiting Kyoto next week for the first time. I hope to fit everything in in two days before moving on to Osaka. I was very lucky to get train tickets on the new Aoniyoshi sightseeing limited Express train from Kyoto to Osaka. Its brand new and looks awesome!

[uss_]

82 views but got recommended this. Giving a watch.

[bennykoh]

HI Kenchan, what you said at the end is correct. Always allow more time for the bus journeys as there were many times i had to stand due to lack of space in the buses.
i chose to stay in omiya area as we wanted to stay near nishiki market and the shopping district. because of this choice we took the hankyu line to omiya instead of jr line.
another advantage of staying near a hankyu station is that we could easily take it to arashiyama. it was a wise choice for us!

[kerri-annkumar]

Can you please write the best areas to stay in Kyoto ? I couldn’t catch this in your video.

[janesong]

We will be visiting Kyoto with two kids in December. We are thinking of taking taxi/shared ride as main mode of transportation. Is it easy to hail a cab? Does Kyoto have Uber? Or any other shared ride? Thank you 🙏

[Toogoodxoxo]

Kyoto is close to any reasonable good city in terms of transport then?
You're just spoilt by the world's best transport service, coming from Tokyo?

[getintoit]

Konichiwa!
I’m a new subscriber and love your content-). Is it possible to do a video showing your favorite hotels for luxury, affordable and budget price points in Osaka, Kyoto and Tokyo?

[CT]

Hi Tokyo Kenchan, I will be in Kyoto in August 2024. I will be staying 1 night/2 days. I have a JR Pass. I will be site seeing places like Kiyomizudera, Fushimi Inari, Arashiyama Bamboo Forest, Nishiki market, Gion area. Then I will be catching JR train to Osaka. Where should I stay in Kyoto? I am told to stay in Downtown Kawaramachi. However, there is no JR lines there. I would like to stay in a business area and be able to walk 15 mins to Gion and be able to walk 10 mins to Kyoto Station as I will need to catch the JR train from Kyoto Station several times. Where would you suggest I stay based on the info I provided?

[nicholaswells]

Thanks Ken Chan. Loved the video. Very helpful. I didn’t realise how difficult it would be to get around

[annielai]

Thank you for the great video! I can’t wait to visit Kyoto 😊 I wondered if you could advise me on which dates in November 2023 it would be best for me to travel to see autumn leaves?
Would it be better for A) November 17-22 or B) November 21-26?
I heard that November 23 is a public holiday (labour appreciation day) in Japan and I was worried about too many crowds then, but wondered if the autumn leaves would be nicer a bit later in November? Thank you so much in advance! 🙏🏻

[Kaledadau]

Do We have to book hotel before go to kyoto or ???

[AmyCsLUXEANDLIFE-ekdr]

Hi, this is our first time to Japan. Which area of hotel do you recommend we should stay? Near by Kyoto station or Kawaramachi area? we are family of 4 with 2 teens and we are coming from Osaka and stay in Kyoto for 4 nights to see tourist attractions & walk around/eat&shop then travel to Tokyo (Shinkansen bullet train.) with 6 luggage. If you can suggest?

[yinyuelover]

Thank you for sharing. Stayed at Aoi hotel and it was awesome and very convenient. Your insight and information will certainly help me on my next visit as I didn't get to do much the last time. Appreciate your putting this video up. 🙏👍

[ebertmorales]

Are you able to use a credit card? I don’t have any debt cards with zero foreign transaction fees.

[KarIna-dpun]

Excellent video!! Thank you for all the useful information :)

[DianaSaenz-yp]

Can you just hop in any train included in the JR pass? or do you need to do reservations ahead? how long ahead?

[gocedimitroski]

This has been a great video. I have been trying to plan out our Kyoto trip. This has been a great help. Lots of information.
We are planning to stay in Kyoto for 1 night (coming from Osaka ) I really want the family to see Fushimi inari, Yasaka Pagoda (Tower of Yasaka). the second day in the morning head to
Arashiyama bamboo forest then off to Tokyo. I am looking forward to your next video

[Wwbagger]

Thank you for your videos they are the best content I've seen so far for tourism and I've seen a lot!

[ldballoon]

What's the cheaper way? $100+ buck for a train is a rip off, Also JR pass price increase start October 2023- almost 150% increase. Que cosa